On Thursday evening, March 8, Dr. Christi Barrett, superintendent of the Hemet Unified School District, prepared and distributed a video message to parents of HUSD students. She shared two major points with parents. First, was to assure them that the district has been and is taking actions to address threats, such as the ones received…
During the week of March 12, Cal Fire will be conducting its annual air-tanker refresher training to the pilots assigned or currently working at Ryan Air Attack Base in Hemet. This training is an annual requirement; typically held in Sacramento but due to current winter weather conditions and the fact that the base is open…
“Town and gown” is a common phrase describing the distinction between local residents, and the students and faculty of higher-level educational institutions located in the town. Issues and differences often arise between the two populations. Almost from the beginning of the “town” of Idyllwild, the “gown” — the Idyllwild Arts Academy — has been present….
Malka Drucker is rabbi at Temple Har Shalom. She has deep roots in Idyllwild, having owned a home here for more than 40 years. Although many of those years were part-time, she and her family spent the summers and weekends in Idyllwild, her kids went to camp here and her husband also did accounting work…
The smARTS Exhibition, featuring the artwork of all Idyllwild Elementary School students, and those Middle School students who elected for art in the PTA smARTS project, will be held upstairs at the Middle Ridge Winery Tasting Gallery beginning Wednesday, March 14, and continuing to Sunday, March 25. A reception will be held from 2 to…
At 2:57 p.m. Sunday, March 4, John Devon, 50, of Palm Desert, was traveling westbound on Highway 74, east of Vista Point, on his 2010 BMW motorcycle, when he drifted into oncoming traffic. Devon was pronounced deceased at the scene by the coroner, according to California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Darren Meyer. For reasons…
Julia Romero was only 17 when on March 31, 2017, she was involved in a head-on, two-car crash on Highway 243. As a result of that crash, Julia suffered two broken ribs, a punctured lung, her left foot broken in several places, her left knee punctured requiring sutures, and her right leg so severely broken…
Hemet High Principal Emily Shaw specifically threatened Last week, Hemet High School became another target of the aftermath from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting Feb. 14. This is just one of several local schools being threatened. On Tuesday, a student scribbled a threat on the stall in a girls’ bathroom at HHS. Not only was…
Sheriff’s log The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Hemet Station responded to the following calls Sunday to Saturday, Feb. 25 to March 3. Idyllwild • Feb. 25 — Petty theft, 12:13 p.m., 26000 block of Hwy. 243. Handled by deputy. • Feb. 25 — Public intoxication, 3:08 p.m., Delano Dr. Handled by deputy. • Feb. 25…
70 years ago – 1948 The proprietor of Thorn’s General Store, Pine Cove, advertised, “I’ll sell you stuff if you’ll hunt me up. It’s too cold to be at the store every day.” 65 years ago – 1953 Ernie Maxwell was a member of the snow crew team that trekked Tahquitz Valley to complete the…
